The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 47 (August 24 - September 7, 2014)

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News and Releases

• PHP 5.6.0 - The long-awaited release of a new version of the interpreter. There are many new features on board: scalar expressions in constants , functions with variable number of arguments , exponentiation operator ** , import of functions and constants from namespaces , built-in phpdbg debugger , operator overload for GMP objects and for other extensions . By tradition, there is a guide to the transition to the new version . PHP 5.6 screencast in 10 minutes .
  Core-developer Stas Malyshev summed up the release of 5.4 and tried to predict the future 5.6 .
• WordPress 4.0 release Benny - The fourth version of the most popular CMS has become available. The release includes many improvements and several new features, although nothing revolutionary.
• HHVM 3.3 - First Release with Long Term Support (LTS)
• Engine Yard sponsors Composer - A $ 15k grant has been announced for a year to support Composer as represented by one of the authors, Nils Adermann . Remembering the statement by another author Composer Jordi Boggiano about the development of a commercial Toran Proxy to support Composer, there is reason to believe that Composer is waiting for a significant development.

Php

• RFC: Implicit isset () in the ternary operator - Instead of isset($_GET['mykey']) ? $_GET['mykey'] : "" isset($_GET['mykey']) ? $_GET['mykey'] : "" you can just $_GET['mykey'] ?: "" .
• RFC: Abstract syntax tree - The proposal was adopted unanimously: 47 - for and none against!
• RFC: Closure :: call - It is also accepted to add a call method for anonymous functions with the possibility of passing the object this .

Instruments

• Optional - A library designed to reduce checks on null in code. Detailed post describing the motivation of the author .
• Checker - Set for self-testing of the class and its individual methods.
• CodeLobster PHP Edition - Alternative IDE for PHP development.
• Broadway - A tool for implementing the principles of CQRS and Event Sourcing in PHP. Post in support .
• Cuzzle - The library allows you to save Guzzle queries as cURL commands for further debugging or logging.
• Versionscan - A tool for checking the current PHP installation for known vulnerabilities.
• Toggle - The library allows you to organize the principle of disconnected features in a PHP application. Post in support .
• Amp - Asynchronous multithreading in PHP.
• php-wise - Symfony Config based configuration library.
• PHP Reflect - Library allows you to explore classes, interfaces, functions, and more. Unlike the standard Reflection API, it does not directly require loading the code, since it is parsed using a PHP lexer.
• CLImate - The best PHP helper in CLI. Color and formatted command line output.
• UnifiedArchive - Library for unified access to archives of various formats. Also in the form of a command line utility - Archive .
• FOSHttpCache - The tool allows you to integrate a PHP application with a cache proxy a la Varnish.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • A number of vulnerabilities found in symfony
  • POST handling of AngularJs requests in symfony2
  • Goodbye, Symfony - About why and how to use symfony components, regardless of the framework itself.
  • What symfony can do in my garage is home automation with PHP tools - About using symfony with RaspberryPi.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel Video Course
  • REST app on Laravel and EmberJS
  • Deploying a site on Laravel using Git
  
  
• Meet Recki-CT - A year and a half ago, Anthony Ferrara presented his PHP PHP to the public - a PHP interpreter written in PHP. However, for several reasons, the tool was just a toy. This time, Anthony introduced the PHP compiler - Recki-CT . This tool supports some subset of PHP: references, variable variables and global variables are not supported. But allows you to compile PHP into machine code. The post also shows benchmarks of Recki-CT performance in comparison with traditional PHP and alternative implementations: HHVM, HippyVM, QB.
  Also in the topic tutorial for installing Recki-CT on Vagrant .
• New book: Functional programming in PHP
• Composition of functions
• Haskell vs PHP - Comparison and test code for PHP in imperative and functional style against Haskell code.
• Deploy the application to Zend Server
• Explanation of PHP Streaming and Output Buffering - How to use PHP to organize the response to the browser in parts.
• A quick guide to compiling PECL extensions from the source
• PINQ requests to your database - Tutorial on the use of PHP-implementation of LINQ.
• Integrating ZF2 Forms into Slim Microframework
• Natural Sorting with MongoDB - How to bypass the MongoDB restrictions on sorting unicode strings in PHP.
• Naming is difficult - Slides talk about good naming practices in PHP.
• Practical performance tuning
• Your Packagist with Toran Proxy
• Modern Workflow for WordPress using Composer
• Understanding PhpSpec - Tutorial on using the SpecBDD framework for PHP. The prologue is here .
• PhpFriendsOfDdd / state-of-the-union - List of resources and tools by DDD in PHP.
• Best practice code testing from Etsy
• PHP recommendations for a younger php developer
• Big system rolling out
• Indexes in mysql
• Yii2 RBAC setup
• We are testing a new type of backup MySQL
• PHP autocomplete console
• A magic object for storing and transmitting heterogeneous data with type and value checking
• Web-gui for wget (light)
• Error based MySQL injection or do not swear
• PHP verification note

Audio and video

• Laracon EU 2014 - Video recordings of reports from the conference held in Amsterdam.

Entertaining

• If programming languages ​​were a weapon
• Why don't some old programming languages ​​die?

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